Street washer and hydrant



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STREET WASHER AND HYDRANT,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 618,753, dated January31, 1899.

Applica/M11 filed February 21,1898. Serial No. 671,130. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LEWIS I. WARD and EDWARD B. NELSON, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Cadiz, in the county of Ilarrison and Stateof Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in StreetVashers and Hydrants; and we do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

Our invention relates to improvements in street washers and hydrants;and its object is to provide a telescoping, antifreezing, andquick-operating device of this kind which may be adjusted to suittrenches of different depths.

To this end the invention consists in certain novel features ofconstruction,'combination, and arrangement of parts, as will behereinafter more fully described,and particularly pointed out in theappended claims.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate thesame parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of our improved adjustable street washeror hydrant,

. and Fig. 2 is a top plan view of same.

Referring' now more particularly to the drawings,1 represents thestop-eock,connected to the service-pipe 2 and provided with the outlet3, to which the discharge-pipe is connected, as hereinafter described,and 4 represents the drip-orifice in the cock,which allows the waterstanding in the discharge-pipe to escape, thereby preventing freezingwhen the stop-cock is turned off.

The valve 5 of the stop-cock is provided with an integral collar or key6, having a depending pin 7, which engages the quadrantal shoulders 8 onthe stop-cock to limit the movement of said valve to .one-quarter of arevolution, thereby facilitating the operation of turning on andshutting off the Iiow of water.

9 represents a square wrench-rod having its lower end fitted into thecollar and secured thereto by a set-screw 10, and 11 represents a pipeencompassing the rod and provided with a contracted lower end 12, havinga square oriiice to permit it to slide freely on the rod. The upper endof this pipe is jour rnaled in the depressed bottom of the streetbox 13,which is provided with a removable cover. (Not shown.)

14 represents a plug or cap projecting through an orifice 15 in thebottom of said box and provided with a shank'lG, Iitted in the upper endof the pipe 11 and rigidly secured thereto by a transverse pin 17'.V Theupper end of this plug-cap terminates in an integral square head 13,which receives the usual hand-wrench for manipulating the stop cock.

19 represents an internally-threaded socket formed integrally with thebottom of the street-box,and 2O an externally-threaded nipple screwedthereinto. The upper end of this nipple is adapted to receive the usualhose connection. Into the lower end of said socket is fitted a threadedcollar 21, which receives the upper end of the upper discharge-pipesection 22, and the lower end of this pipe is fitted to slide telescopefashion in the pipesection 23. The lower end of the pipe 23 is coupledto a short discharge-pipesection 24, threaded into the stop-cockoutlet-passage 3, by means of a coupling-collar 25, and the upperthreaded end of said pipe 23 is secured in the threaded socket 2G of asleeve 27, adjustably connected with the pipe-section 22 by a set-screw28. A suitable packing 29 in the socket 26 forms a water-tight jointbetween the two pipes 22 23.

The pipes 11 23 are connected and maintained in parallelism by a guideclamp or brace 30, which is. rigidlysecured by a setscrew (not shown) tothe said pipe 23 and forms a guide for the key-operating pipe 11.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, the construction and mode of operation of the invention willbeunderstood. It will be seen that by means of a single set-screw 28 thestreet-washer may be adjusted to suit any reasonable depth of tank, avery valuable feature over the ordinary forms, which are put on themarket in set or xed lengths. Ordinarily the device is made to suittrenches from three to iive feet in depth.

It will be understood, of course, that while we have shown our inventionin the present instance as adapted for use as a street-washer IOO theprinciples of the saine are applicable to lire-plugs, hydrants forsupplying Water for drinking and domestic purposes, and the like. We donot therefore Wish to be confined to the specific construction shown anddescribed, but reserve to ourselves the right to make such changes andinodiiications as fairly fall Within the scope of our invention.

Having thus fully described our invention, what We claiin as new anduseful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a device of the character described, the combination of a streetbox or casing, a stop-cock, a Wrench-rod connected With the valve of thecock, a pipe fitted to slide on the rod and journaled at its upper endin the box or casing and provided with a head for application of aWrench, said pipe being connected to oscillate with and turn the rod tooperate the valve, and a mtelescopic discharge -pipe connecting the boxor casing and outlet-passage of the cock, said pipe being provided witha coupling-sleeve to hold the sections thereof adjustably connected,substantially as described.

2. In a street-Washer, the combination of a stop-cock provided with adrain-oriiice and a valve having a collar carrying a stop-pin to limitthe movement of the valve, a street-box, a Wrench-rod secured at itslower end to said collar, a pipe encompassing the rod and journaled atits upper end in the box, a telescopic discharge-pipe communicatingbetween the box and outlet-passage of the cock, and a sleeve having asocket to receive one end of one of the pipe sections, packing in saidsocket, and a set-screw to engage the other section, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of tWoWitnesses.

LEWIS I. WARD. EDVARD B. NELSON.

YVitnosscs:

W. G. WARD, WESLEY A. HOLMES.

